top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Nation quotes
"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."
"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"
"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."
"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."
Explore more quotes by Robertson Davies
"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater."
"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."
"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
bottom of page